Who was the engineer that completed the Brooklyn Bridge?
Emily Roebling
Emily Warren Roebling
1843 - 1903
“...It was common gossip that hers was the real mind behind the great work and that this the most monumental engineering triumph of the age was actually the doing of a woman, which as a general proposition was taken in some quarters to be both preposterous and calamitous. In truth, she had by then a thorough grasp of the engineering involved.” The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge by David Mucullough
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The Encyclopedia of New York City
New York by Ric Burns
Possible sources of information
The Brooklyn Engineers Club
Emily Roebling was the first woman to address the American Society of Civil Engineers
the Emily Roebling Scholarship is given to deserving female Engineering students at Rensselar Polytechnic University in New York.
Who was the engineer that completed the Brooklyn Bridge?
Emily Warren Roebling
1843 - 1903
“...It was common gossip that hers was the real mind behind the great work and that this the most monumental engineering triumph of the age was actually the doing of a woman, which as a general proposition was taken in some quarters to be both preposterous and calamitous. In truth, she had by then a thorough grasp of the engineering involved.”
The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge by David Mucullough
Find materials in our library: 624.2, 624.4, 624
The Brooklyn Bridge by Elaine Pascoe 624.2 PAS
Brooklyn Bridge DVD 624.23 BRO
Bridges: from My side to yours by Jan Adkins
The Brooklyn Bridge: a cultural history by Richard Haw
Brooklyn Bridge: fact and symbol by Alan Trachtenberg
Brooklyn Bridge: New York City's Graceful connection by Vicki Weiner
The Great Bridge by David McCullough
Built to Last by George Sullivan
Dreams of Iron and Steel by Deborah Cadbury
Thinking Big: America's greatest constructions
The Encyclopedia of New York City
New York by Ric Burns
PBS website on the Brooklyn Bridge based on the documentary by Ken Burns
Possible sources of information
The Brooklyn Engineers Club
Emily Roebling was the first woman to address the American Society of Civil Engineers
the Emily Roebling Scholarship is given to deserving female Engineering students at Rensselar Polytechnic University in New York.
LINKS
The Brooklyn Bridge and a Marriage of Equals By Paul Wilmshurst
American Society of Civil Engineering (ASCE) brief on Emily Roebling
Emily's Bridge by Bonnie Yochelson (NY Times, January 2009)
Gender Reconfigured abstract for article from the Architectural Theory Review *
Encyclopedia.com
Freinds of the Brooklyn Bridge